Roshi Hogan's Teachings Of The Tao

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Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Most people want
to understand and be understood even on a most basic level. Yet a wise one knows
that this does not mean that you have to know everything. The sage also is
unconcerned whether he is understood or not. He merely seeks to follow his way
as water seeks its level. Wisdom is the quiet and deep water. It is the
farthest star in the sky that often goes unnoticed. If you know everything about
something, the exotic mystery of the unknown is lost. The sage makes no effort
to know everything and thus knows the most.

Monday, March 2, 2015

The Tao Te Ching tells us to live our life and trust the Dao. But
then, is the Dao ever un-trustful? You can always count on the Dao to maintain
balance, if not in the short-term, then definitely in the long run. In that
manner, the Dao can always be trusted to keep things orderly. Good things
happen, bad things happen. We often cause most of our own grief so if there is
a perceived imbalance, we are the culprit. We have to live our life. Living
scared should not be an option. We must walk the tightrope between too little and
too much, between being too careful and being too reckless, between heeding the
advice of others and marching to our own drum.

Sunday, March 1, 2015

I like art for
art’s sake but I can’t say the same for most of the artists I’ve met. Many of
them seem to be self-centered, self-important souls with contrived artists’
statements or missions. I enjoy the creativeness inside that results in a
drawing, a painting, a sculpture or something else. The best piece of art is
the one you enjoy yourself. It doesn’t have to win some kind of contest. All
that matters is that you like it. The Dao compares itself to no one and neither
should we.

Roshi Hogan Says...

The way ebbs and flows creating and destroying

Live simply and simply liveI asked the boy beneath the pines; he said the master's gone alone. Walking somewhere on the mountain; cloud-hidden, whereabouts unknown Blow out the candle and make friends with the darkness

We do not insist our way is the only way, or the best way, merely that it is our way

Good enough is not good enough unless it is good enough.

Wisdom does not float in with the morning tide.

Let the trade winds that blow through your life be that of the Dao

To describe the Dao, one word too many, a million words too few

In a world filled with treachery and darkness, the Dao remains the shining light of goodness and truth

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Roshi Hogan Biography

When Roshi Hogan was young, there was who the neighbors called "a strange old man" who lived across the alley from him. This 'strange old man' was a former student of a Dao master in China. Becoming friends, Roshi Hogan had the wonderful opportunity to learn about the Tao from him. Such was the beginning of his practice. Roshi Hogan now passes these ancient teachings on to you. Roshi Hogan has lectured and teaches meditation and Daoism to many students. He has also had the honor of lecturing nationally, as well as internationally. Roshi Hogan is also an acclaimed artist who has exhibited at many group showings and has held solo exhibitions as well. He also enjoys writing poetry and is the author of 'One A.M. In A Bar Somewhere; A Collection of Anecdotes.